Ashburton’s mayoralty might
be a three-horse race but that
doesn’t mean the punters are
prepared to place many bets on
their favourites.
With just over 24 hours remaining until voting closes in
this year’s local body elections,
the Ashburton District Council
be heading for its lowest return
of ballot papers ever.
Late yesterday just 39.13 per
cent of papers had been returned. At the same time in the
2010 election the return rate at
the same stage was 52.91 per
cent.
Voters have had four weeks
to vote and return their ballot papers either by post to the
electoral office or by hand to the
Ashburton District Council. A
surprisingly low number have
bothered.
There may have been minimal
interest in voting by post but
there has been strong interest in
taking part online in the Guardian’s poll conducted to gauge
voter support for the three mayoral candidates.
The poll may have been unscientific, but it pulled in the votes.
In the early stages, sitting
mayor Angus McKay surged
ahead with Ashburton Citizens

Association member Russell Ellis in hot pursuit.
Former Mount Hutt College
principal Don McLeod was
slow out of the starting gates
but rallied and gained significant support in the mid stages
of the poll.
For several days Mr McKay
maintained his dominance but
by Wednesday morning the
chasers had gained ground and
the mayoralty appeared to be
wide open. And so it continued
until the poll closed at 9pm last
night.
It’s still anyone’s guess
who’ll wear the district’s mayoral chains after voting closes at
noon on Saturday.
Provisional results will be
known later that afternoon with
the final vote count (including
special votes) likely to be completed by Tuesday.
Every voter on the district’s
electoral role is entitled to vote
for the mayor while people in
the council’ urban ward can
choose seven councillors from
13 on offer.
Every voter in the Ashburton
Trust area has the opportunity
to select six candidates from a
list of nine.
There is no election for the
council’s eastern and western
wards.

A drunk passenger who stripped naked on an airport tarmac
and challenged the flight captain to a fight had to be tasered
by police. The burly, tattooed 52-year-old was caught on video
stripping to his black underpants, shouting and remonstrating
after stepping off the easyJet flight from Malta to Manchester.
He then removed his underpants and received a hard slap across
his face by his female companion before putting his clothes
back on. The incident was caught on video. The stripper, who
has not been identified but spoke with a Manchester accent,
also urinated on the side of the Terminal One
building at Manchester Airport.

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It pays to stay alert
A man caught rummaging through a
bin outside a Hamilton business was
arrested with thousands of dollars of
cash and a haul of suspected drugs and
paraphernalia. Police said a member of
the public alerted them after the man
was seen going through the large
rubbish bin at the back of a business
about 1.30am. “As things turned out
their concerns were well founded,”
Sergeant Darin Frost said.

A big dollop of silence
The latest in New York City
dining? Eating in silence. A
restaurant in Brooklyn’s
trendy Greenpoint
neighbourhood is serving
up a four-course meal of
organic, locally-sourced
food, but isn’t allowing
any chit-chat. Eat
restaurant chef Nicholas
Nauman says he was
inspired to put on the
occasional ‘No Talking’
affairs after spending time
with Buddhist monks in
India. He says the silence
allows customers a
chance to better
experience the food.

Woman gives birth on lawn
An indigenous woman squats in pain
after giving birth, her newborn still
bound by the umbilical cord and lying
on the ground. It has horrified Mexicans
because of where it took place: the
lawn outside a medical clinic where
the woman had been denied help,
and it struck a nerve in a country where
inequity is still pervasive. The government
of Oaxaca announced yesterday that it
has suspended the health centre’s director
while officials investigate the incident. The
mother, Irma Lopez, 29, (right) said that she
and her husband were turned away from the
centre by a nurse who said she was only eight
months pregnant and “not ready” to deliver.

■

Hockey: The Festival of
hockey continues today at
the Ashburton Hockey Turf
with the primary girls’ teams
reaching the semi-final stage
before the finals on Saturday,
with games on the turf from
9am.

Walnut Avenue at
the domain for a
stroll around town to
socialise and get active.
■

Walking group: Every Monday and Friday mornings join
a group of walkers at Hockey
Pavillion at 10.30am on

Left legless
A Brazilian hospital says a patient with
diabetic kidney failure has been left legless
after going into an operation to amputate
his right leg and having doctors remove his
left. The spokesperson for Rio de Janeiro’s
Pedro Ernesto University Hospital said
that doctors were supposed to amputate
the right leg of Antonio Cesar Victorio but
instead they removed his left leg. “When
the patient’s daughter told doctors they had
removed the wrong leg, they amputated
the other leg as well.” She says the hospital
is trying to determine if doctors committed
a medical error or if they “removed the left
leg because it too was compromised by the
patient’s disease”.

Mt Hutt: Mt Hutt was blessed
with some fresh powder making for ideal spring conditions
for closing weekend, with
skiers and boarders rushing
to get their last runs of the
season in before the skifield’s
last day on Sunday.

■

Farmer’s market: The
Ashburton Farmer’s Market
is back for summer offering
a range of locally grown and
produced items for sale in
the West Street carpark from
9am.

■

Garden Tour: The Mayfield Playcentre is holding a
Homegrown Garden Tour and
Fete from 10am-4pm. Visit

five fabulous Mid Canterbury
gardens in the Mayfield and
Ruapauna districts, then
browse, shop and relax at a
country fete. ($20 pre-sales,
$25 on the day or $10 fete
only).

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■ HEPATITIS A VACCINATIONS

Dramatic turnaround by parents
By MyleS huMe

Myles.h@theguardian.co.nz

Health authorities are relieved
with the dramatic rise in parents opting to immunise their
children against hepatitis A after a poor showing at Tuesday’s
first mass vaccination clinic.
Figures provided by the Canterbury District Health Board
(CDHB) show a 79 per cent increase in the number of vaccinations carried out on Wednesday compared with Tuesday.
The CDHB is holding six
hepatitis A vaccination clinics
across Mid Canterbury for one
to four year olds in a bid to cap

out the following day.
“The clinics are progressing
well and we are happy with the
turnout. There are more clinics
next week, and it’s important
that as many children as possible are vaccinated not only for
the child’s own protection but
also that of their family and the
community,” Canterbruy medical officer of health Dr Alistair
Humphrey said.
Dr Humphrey said there were
up to 1500 Mid Canterbury
youngsters eligible for the vaccine, prompting him to call for
at least 200 children to attend
each of the clinics for him “to
feel comfortable” about contain-

■ PLAYCENTRE FUNDRAISER

ing the outbreak in Ashburton.
“This hepatitis A outbreak
continues to infiltrate, spreading silently through the Ashburton preschool community,”
Dr Humphrey said.
“Often preschoolers with the
disease will have no symptoms,
but if they pass it on to their
parents or grandparents the
disease can get very serious and
lead to hospitalisation.”
Four more vaccination clinics
are to be held until October 23,
with two at St David’s Union
Church in Allenton on October
15 and 16 along with vaccination clinics in Rakaia and Methven on October 23.

Breakers
start the
right way
By KriS Shannon

Ruapuna gardener Kay King does a final round of weeding ahead of this weekend’s Home Grown garden tour being held to
raise money for the Mayfield Playcentre. Mrs King’s garden will be open for inspection and it will also be the site of the fundraiser’s fete.
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Mayfield gardens open to the public
By GaBrielle Stuart
gabrielle.s@theguardian.co.nz

Five families with links to
the Mayfield Playcentre have
opened their gardens for a fundraising tour tomorrow.
The five gardens are Liz and
Warren Scott’s Stonehaven,
Glenys and Gregg Carr’s garden, Margaret and Don Ingold’s Whetstone property,

Nicky and Mark Morrow,
Montalto and Kay and Morris
King’s Gumleigh, which will
also host a fete.
Playcentre children have
pitched in to help with the fundraiser too, growing a range
of seedlings to sell at the garden fete, which will also feature
food stalls and plenty of shopping.

Playcentre secretary Cate
Hogan said that the gardens
were each very different, ranging from large sculptural landscapes to colourful country
gardens.
The two acre Whetstone
garden features 300 rhododendrons and more than 400 roses,
while the woodland Montalto
garden has been in the Morrow

family for six generations and
was established more than 100
years ago.
The gardens are all situated
near Mayfield, and are open
between 10am and 4pm for the
self-paced tours.
Tickets and more information are available in Ashburton
from Lushingtons or Reflections.

For all the upheaval experienced
by the Breakers in the Australian NBL offseason, some things
seemingly never change.
The three-time defending
champions made a typically successful start towards making it
an unprecedented four in a row,
dispatching the Wollongong
Hawks 92-73 with a minimum of
fuss at Vector Arena last night.
The Breakers began with
Dean Vickerman on the sidelines - the first time since 2005
it has been someone other than
Andrej Lemanis carrying the
clipboard - and a host of roster
changes but made light work of
last season’s semi-finalists.
In the absence of Cedric Jackson, with last season’s MVP
having departed to Slovenia,
the Breakers demonstrated
their roster is still packed with
enough power to make them serious contenders to extend their
reign.
The 6000-strong crowd
watched pre-game as the Dillon Boucher’s No 24 was retired
and the third championship
banner was raised, before the
current crop began their quest
to add another in the best possible fashion.
New point guard Kerron Johnson had a couple of rookie errors - missed free throws and defensive tasks - but showed more
than enough evidence he can
be the guiding hand the Breakers needed to replace Jackson,
while Tom Abercrombie looked
back to his springy self with 19
points after battling an ankle injury all last season.
- APNZ

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■ FIRE DISTRICT

Threat to stand-alone status
By Sue NewmaN

sue.n@theguardian.co.nz

It might be digging its toes
in, but the Ashburton District
Council may find it has little
choice over becoming part of a
large rural fire district.
Currently Ashburton is a
stand-alone district but the
Government is keen to reduce
the number of fire districts. A
draft report which evaluated

the options for a large rural fire
district in Canterbury has been
prepared and discussed.
This gives Ashburton two
options – to be part of a Hurunui to Ashburton grouping
or to look south for its new rural fire boundaries.
In a report to the council,
chief executive Andrew Dalziel said the council needed to
make up its mind which way it
would jump.

Standing still might not be
an option, he said.
“There will be pressure and
the government has indicated
if we don’t do this ourselves,
they’ll do it for us.”
That didn’t sway councillor
Darryl Nelson who said Ashburton wanted to stand alone.
“Until they can prove to us
there is a saving or a benefit in
joining any group we’re quite
happy where we are.”

If Ashburton didn’t want to
change it would have to prove
that it could put out fires faster
and cheaper than it would as
part of an enlarged rural district, Mr Dalziel said.
Before the evaluation report
was finalised, Ashburton had
to decide by the end of November whether it was in with the
Hurunui group or whether it
wanted to look at another option.

■ SILVER ANNIVERSARY

In brief
Zonta career grant
Ashburton’s Zonta Club has $1500
to give away to a woman who
needs a hand up with her career.
The club is calling for applications
for a grant that is made annually
to a woman wanting to advance
her education and her career.
Applicants must be either working
or studying with the objective
of re-entering the workforce.
Applicants need to have a project
plan and must explain how this will
help them move ahead with their
career. Information on the Zonta
career development scholarship
can be obtained from Alison Grant,
3024635. Applications close on
November 8.

Farming workshop
Hinds farmer David Keeley will
host a combined DairyNZ and
Beef and Lamb workshop at
his Maronan Ealing Road farm
on Tuesday. The theme of the
workshop is wintering for success,
and will focus on key learnings
from last winter, crop selection,
and ensuring good results when a
dairy grazier is used for wintering.
The workshop starts at 10.45am.

Sheep sale
Heavy prime lambs fetched
between $120 and $129 at the
Tinwald saleyards this week.
Medium weights made $112 to $118
and light weights $90 to $105. A
hundred or so prime ewes also
went under the hammer, with
heavy ewes selling for $105 to
$120, medium ewes $80 to $95
and light ewes $55 to $65. A small
line of store ewes and lambs all
counted made $62.

Information Centre celebrates 25 years
Volunteers and staff, past and
present, gathered yesterday to
celebrate the 25th birthday of
Ashburton’s Information Centre.
The original centre, built in
1988, served the district well
until 2003 when a decision was
made to build a new centre that
would serve Ashburton for an-

other 25 years. The council of
the day had three choices – extend the existing building, construct a new building on the
same site or relocate to a new
site.
Many people favoured a relocation to the Ashburton Railway Station.
After much debate the Ash-

burton District Council decided a new centre in the heart of
Ashburton was the best option
and the old building was moved
30 metres north on the East
Street green.
That move took place in January 2005 and work began immediately on its replacement.
When the new centre was com-

pleted, the old building was
lifted onto the back of a truck
and taken to the Hampstead
Rugby Club grounds.
Tenders were called for the
building and ownership was eagerly contested.
Today’s i-site was officially
opened on July 1, 2005 by then
Prime Minister Helen Clark.

Man dies after catamaran capsizes
A man who died after a boat
capsized in the sea off Northland was not wearing a lifejacket.
Coastguard spokesman Ray
Burge said it was the first time
the deceased and another man,
who had to swim for two hours
to shore, had taken out the 16foot Hobie catamaran.
Police and search and res-

cue volunteers began searching about 6pm yesterday after
the survivor reached shore
at Matapouri, near Whangarei, reporting his friend had
remained with their capsized
boat.
The man said he had been in
the water for about two hours
before reaching the shore, police said.

Coastguard and a helicopter
were deployed and the overturned boat was found by the
helicopter crew about 7pm.
A man’s body was found and
recovered from the water about
20 minutes later.
Mr Burge said it was fortunate there were not two fatalities, given the amount of time
the other man had been in the

water without a lifejacket.
The boat had split in two and
volunteers from Tutukaka had
managed to get it onto their
boat and take it to shore.
As well as not having lifejackets, the men did not have
any form of waterproof communication on board.
It was the first time they had
taken the vessel out. - APNZ

A search has been called off for
a microlight reported to have
crashed in the Marlborough Sounds
yesterday. A police spokesman
said a helicopter had flown over
the area and a search had been
conducted on foot, with no sign
of the missing aircraft. A witness
called emergency services about
3.45pm with a report of what
was believed to be a microlight
crashing in smoke.
- APNZ

Heke’s bones moved
The remains of legendary Ngapuhi
chief Hone Heke have been taken
to a site just out of Kaikohe in
preparation for the reburial of the
bones at the end of the month.
David Rankin descendant of Hone
Heke, removed the 19th century
warrior chief’s bones from a cave
near Pakaraka, where they had
lain since 1850. Mr Rankin said
discussions with Ngapuhi iwi
leaders led to the decision to bury
the remains on Putahi, a mountain
just north of Kaikohe, at sunrise on
October 28.
- APNZ

Grevious bodily harm
A toddler may never grow to be
a normal child or adult after his
father violently injured him as a
baby, a court heard. Robert Haami
Boynton, 41, was sentenced in the
High Court at Rotorua yesterday
for causing grievous bodily harm
to his then 4-month-old son with
reckless disregard for his safety. He
was found guilty by a jury during a
retrial this year. He was handed a
prison sentence of three years and
six months.
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■ HOT PROPERTY MARKET

Long wait for rental properties
By Sue NewmaN

sue.n@theguardian.co.nz

If you’re new to Ashburton’s
rental market you might be in
for a long wait for a home.
The pool of properties to
rent has hit a low ebb, with one
letting agent saying she had
nothing available.
For Di Skilling from
McGregors the rent book is
empty. The string of properties she manages are all full,
but inquiries continue to come

in. For some, the wait for somewhere to live might be a long
one, she said.
For property managers and
their owners, having a choice
of tenants is they way they like
to see the market; for renters,
however, that means they need
good references, no dogs and
they need to have worked their
way to the top of the letting
list.
While there continues to be
strong demand for rentals, Mrs

Skilling said that hasn’t translated into a rent rise rort. Yes,
rentals are inching up, but they
moving at what agents consider an appropriate rate.
If you can find a property
to rent in the Ashburton District you can now expect to pay
about $320 just to put a roof
over your head.
Online rental agency Trade
Me had 19 three bedroom
properties across the district
for rent, ranging in price from

$230 to $450. The cheapest
three bedder was an older cottage in Methven at $230. On
Saturday there were just two
property owners looking for
tenants in the Guardian with
the same number of people
looking for somewhere to live.
The rental squeeze is not
new; at the same time last year,
there were no properties available in the Guardian for rent,
but there were still renters
looking for homes.

Ashburton does its bit to add to market volatility
By Sue NewmaN

sue.n@theguardian.co.nz

Ashburton is playing a strong
role in ensuring Canterbury
continues to vie with Auckland
for the dubious honour of having the hottest property market in the country.
In the latest Quotable Value
statistics for the year to September 30 Auckland continued its stranglehold on price
escalation with most parts of
the greater city showing double digit percentage increases
in value, up to 16.9 per cent in
some areas.
Ashburton’s growth in sale
price over the past year was
8.7 per cent, exceeded only by
most areas of Christchurch,
Selwyn and the Mackenzie District in the South Island.
The average selling price
in Ashburton has now hit
$306,004, well below the
cheapest average in Christchurch, $331,375 in the eastern
suburbs.
Many parts of New Zealand
continue to show very little or
negative growth for the year,
with the hardest hit Otorohonga with an 18.2 per cent drop
in values.
Many parts of the South Island also have declining sale
prices, with the hardest hit

Sales Agent Karen Groves signs in another potential buyer at an open home. As Ashburton’s
property market continues to be marked by high demand and a shortage of listings, the numbers of people turning up at open days is growing.
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Gore, with a drop of 3.9 per
cent.
High demand and short
supply was pushing prices up
in Auckland and Canterbury
Jonno Ingerson, QV research
director said and while most
of the other main cities and
provincial towns were also increasing it was at a more mod-

est rate.
Five years ago, the average
sale price in the Ashburton
District was $260,147. This
dropped to $256,905 in 2010
before beginning to climb
again.
Increases in the average price
over the past two years have
been 7.7 and 8.7 per cent.

It was still too early to gauge
the impact of the loan to value
ratio caps the Reserve Bank
had applied to slow down rising values, he said.
Dunedin is continuing to
slow, with values static for the
last six months and as a result
only 1.8 per cent above last
year.

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Islands’
names
now official
By ReBecca Quilliam
It has taken several years and
cost at least $10,000 for the
North and South Islands to officially be named what we’ve
been calling them for decades.
Yesterday Land Information
Minister announced the official
names for the country’s two
main islands are the North and
South Islands or, alternatively,
the te reo names Te Ika-a-Maui
(north), and Te Waipounamu
(south).
New Zealand Geographic
Board chairman Don Grant
said the total cost of recommending those names to the
minister could not be quantified
“due to the several years that
the proposals have been under
consideration”.
But he said notification and
advertising of the proposal this
year had cost $6161.37 plus
GST for newspaper advertising
and the New Zealand Gazette
notice.
The board also paid two contractors $3012.20 plus GST for
helping to process the submissions, Dr Grant said.
“The board undertook three
months of public consultation
on these proposals from AprilJuly this year, with the overwhelming majority of public
submitters showing that they
wanted the choice to use the
English or Maori names.
The board received 2608 submissions from 1329 submitters.
Of the submissions, 1842
were in support of one or more
of the proposals and 766 opposed to one or more.
Following Mr Williamson’s
announcement, Land Information New Zealand maps and
charts that feature the island
names will reflect both the English and Maori names. - APNZ

High Court rules Phillipstown school merger ‘unlawful’
By KuRt BayeR
A tiny Christchurch school
that yesterday won a David
vs Goliath legal battle against
a government-forced closure
hosted a victory party last
night.
Education Minister Hekia
Parata’s decision to close Phillipstown School as part of
her $1 billion post-quake city
schools shake-up was unlawful,
a High Court judge has ruled.
Justice John Fogarty said the
decision to close the decile 1
Phillipstown school and merge
with nearby Woolston to create a 465-child super-school

next January was unlawful.
“I conclude that the Minister
has, inadvertently, not consulted to the standard required by
the law,” he said.
The decision was greeted
with “tears of joy” yesterday,
and the school had planned
an impromptu party for last
night, which was to include a
bagpipe performance.
“David won today. Words
can’t express how we feel,”
says principal Tony Simpson.
“We’re thrilled by the judges
decision.
“We feel totally vindicated.
“It’s the culmination of
months and months of hard

work by a number of people.”
The school received the decision around midday, before
sharing it with the board, then
staff, and then the parents and
community.
“There were tears of joy,”
said Mr Simpson.
The ministry said the school
suffered quake damage, and it
made sense to merge its small
roll of 163 with another small
roll.
But the school was angry
over a perceived lack of consultation, and Justice Fogarty
agreed.
While the judge was certain the ministry conducted

consultation “in good faith”, it
had failed to meet the requirements of the Education Act.
Labour’s associate education
spokeswoman Megan Woods
said the process was “botched
from beginning to end”.
“[Parata’s] faux consultation narrative and her inherent
inability to listen to the community were always going to
end in tears.”
Ms Parata says she will review carefully the outcome of
the judicial review.
“We will urgently examine
Justice Fogarty’s decision, and
our options, including continuing consultation on the is-

sue that was of concern to the
court,” she said.
Whether the ministry will
still pursue the school’s closure is uncertain.
But Mr Simpson said his
door was open to talks with
the minister, as well as enrolments for next year.
“We don’t want to be nasty
about this,” he said.
“We’ve received the outcome
from the court - we have legal
backing now.
“So let’s get on with our core
business which is caring for really good children and working hard for their interests.”
- APNZ

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■ MT HUTT SKIFIELD

In brief
Racecourse upgrade
One of Tauranga’s major events
facilities will undergo an upgrade
worth nearly $250,000. The
Tauranga Racecourse will have
$245,000 spent on upgrading
its narrow, boggy entrance after
Tauranga City Council authorised
the plan this week. The venue on
Cameron Rd hosts at least one
event a week and has hundreds of
people using it each day. - APNZ

Dad leaves minus son
Canadian Michael Hayes left New
Zealand yesterday after visiting
the place where his son Connor
was killed by a landslip last month.
However, his grief will be felt
more strongly than ever when he
returns home, he said. Mr Hayes
and his wife, Lorraine Tetreault,
have spent the past week in New
Zealand following the accident on
September 10 in which the camper
van Connor, 25, and his girlfriend
Joanna Lam, 24, were travelling
was swept off the Haast Pass road
by a landslip into the river below.
Miss Lam’s body later washed up
on a West Coast beach but Mr
Hayes’ body has not been found.
- APNZ

Call for rescue

Skier Blair James enjoys 50cm of fresh powder on Mt Hutt yesterday before its drama-filled season comes to a close on Sunday.
Photo GeorGie Boyd

‘Interesting’ season nears end
By Myles HuMe

Myles.h@theguardian.co.nz

A record snowfall in June
proved “the saving grace” for
an eventful season on Mt Hutt
which opens for its final weekend of 2013 tomorrow.
A 50cm covering of snow
this week has capped off what
ski area manager James McKenzie calls “an interesting”
2013 season, which saw a record snowfall, followed by unwelcome mild weather and a
chain of dramatic events.
“With a few days to go I
would say it’s definitely been
an interesting season, but I’m

quite happy with how things
are and it’s looking likely we
will be up on last year’s tally
(of people),” he said.
With Mt Hutt being the laststanding South Island skifield
open this season, others have
struggled as decent snowfalls
came in dribs and drabs.
It has been much the same
for Mt Hutt, except for a huge
dumping around June 20 which
saw an additional 2.8 metres
of snow blanketed across its
slopes – the biggest snowfall
seen in 20 years.
“We would have made it
through and without the big

snow destroying our snow machines we would have been able
to make snow. But July and August was so mild and the snow
was few and far between and
that’s where some of the other
ski areas struggled,” he said.
With an encouraging weather forecast filling Mr McKenzie with anticipation of a happy
ending to the season on Sunday, it would be a fitting close
to a season that has come with
its headline events.
The record snow in June
triggered a major avalanche,
taking out the skifield triple
chairlift for the season, and that

was just days after another avalanche wiped out the snowmaking building.
A contingent of stranded
Mount Hutt College pupils also
made headlines, along with the
International Paralympic Committee’s world cup event and a
40th anniversary celebration.
“This year was certainly a big
year,” Mr McKenzie said.
He said weather forecasts
on the mountain predict light
winds with cloud and light
snow showers, meaning it was
likely the mountain would be
open through to its closing day
on Sunday.

Biodiversity funds available to landowners
Landowners and community
groups in the Ashburton District have an opportunity to
apply for a share of almost
$3 million from Environment
Canterbury’s annual biodiversity fund.
The fund has been set up to
encourage people to undertake
work to protect and restore
Canterbury’s unique native biodiversity.
Biodiversity Team Leader
Jo Abbott says the biodiversity funds, including the Canterbury Water Management
Strategy Immediate Steps
fund, provides financial support to communities and indi-

viduals where it can make a real
difference.
“We want to make sure most
funding goes to on-the-ground
biodiversity projects that people can see and take part in,” Dr
Abbott said.
“Projects that will deliver the
greatest biodiversity benefits
are most likely to be supported.
The top priority is for projects
to protect areas that already
have high biodiversity value,
such as fencing an area of native bush or wetland.
“Projects that restore areas
with some existing biodiversity
value, for example infill planting in a native vegetation area,

will also be considered.
“Some funding is available
for creation projects such as
entirely new plantings aimed at
creating biodiversity hotspots.
Up to two-thirds of the total cost of a project is available
from the biodiversity fund and
in-kind contributions such as
labour costs can be considered
as part of the applicants’ contribution.
The Canterbury Water Management Strategy Immediate
Steps fund is allocated through
zone committees and the Regional Committee on behalf of
the community.
Applications for biodiversity

funding are accepted all year
round.
Projects with the highest biodiversity value will be funded
immediately if they met the
criteria.
More information is available
from the Environment Canterbury’s Biodiversity Team
on 0800 324 636 if you have a
project that might be eligible
for funding.
Download an application
form from http://ecan.govt.
nz/advice/biodiversity/funding/Pages/Default.aspx
or
look at http://ecan.govt.nz/
advice/biodiversity/Pages/
Default.aspx

Unforeseen weather and a high
avalanche risk prompted two
experienced climbers to summon
an emergency rescue from a
glacier in Mt Aspiring National
Park. Wanaka police and LandSAR
Wanaka launched a search and
rescue operation yesterday
morning after the two men
found themselves in a potentially
dangerous situation and raised the
alarm, police said. The pair were
experienced alpinists from the
Wanaka area who encountered
different weather conditions to
those forecast, including snow
drifts up to their chests at times.
-APNZ

Vicious assault
Police have made two arrests after
a 53-year-old man was beaten with
a wooden pole in a Nelson park.
Police received multiple calls to
the incident at Anzac Park about
12.20pm and found the victim
hiding in a public toilet. He had
been beaten with a wooden pole
and sustained serious injuries to
his face and arms. Police later
arrested a 29-year-old Nelson
man and 32-year-old Nelson
man in relation to the incident.
It is believed a third person was
involved in the assault and police
are working to identify that
person.
- APNZ

Not guilty plea
Former Northland police officer
Mike Blowers has pleaded not
guilty to charges that he supplied
methamphetamine and cannabis
and also stole methamphetamine.
Michael David Blowers, 43,
appeared in the High Court at
Whangarei yesterday where he
denied three charges laid by
the Crown. Blowers is charged
with supplying the Class A drug
methamphetamine, as well as a
charge of supplying the Class C
drug cannabis, and a third charge
of stealing methamphetamine on
or about October 19, 2011. Blowers
was remanded on bail for callover
in the court on November 28.
- APNZ

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■ WATER SAFETY

Life jackets prove
worth on Lake Hood
By myleS Hume

Myles.h@theguardian.co.nz

Making life jackets compulsory on Lake
Hood has seen “99.9 per cent” of boaties obey the rule, prompting its manager
Gilbert Murdoch to back a move to mandate them for children across the country.
Under rules exclusive to Lake Hood,
each person on a boat that is “underway”
must wear a lifejacket, in what Mr Murdoch says bolsters safety on the lake and
in its canals.
This week, National MP Peseta Sam
Lotu-Iiga released his private member’s
bill. He wants to make wearing lifejackets compulsory for children under 15 on
vessels six metres in length and under.
Currently, the skipper only needs to
have lifejackets on board for each person,
but water safety advocates say if lifejackets had to be worn, many lives would not
have already been lost.
Mr Murdoch said the lifejacket rule
was enforced by Lake Hood wardens
on jetskis and other officials in the area,
which has prompted the majority of
boaties to always wear lifejackets.

He believed if similar laws were
brought in it could have the same effect
in other parts of the country.
Maritime New Zealand has echoed
similar views, and recently hosted US
Coast Guard chief of boating safety
Jeff Hoedt who said enforcement helped
change boating behaviour.
“Our experience is that when you mandate something as the law, there is a high
level of compliance,” he said.
“In the United States, we have very
high wear rates for people under 13 –
that compares with 21 to 22 per cent for
the whole population going out on the
water.”
Lake Hood Aquatic Park project manager Gary Casey last week announced a
new registration scheme, which will now
require boaties to sign up their vessels to
show they have read the rules and will
comply.
Mr Murdoch said it was not about
bringing more rules, but to boost safety
on a lake that continues to attract more
punters each year.
“It’s a lot about education more than
anything else, we are trying to make it a
safe place for everyone,” he said.

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in 2000 and is open to youth aged 15 to
24 from anywhere in the Ashburton District. The youth council is seen as an important link between the district council
and younger members of the district.
Opinions are sought on a range of
council decisions not just youth related
issues and the youth council also supports youth in the community by providing activities.
Young people wanting to make a difference for youth in the Ashburton District can find out more about the Youth
Council on the district council’s website
www.ashburtondc.govt.nz. Applications
must be made by November 9.

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By Sue NewmaN

Becoming a member of the Ashburton
Youth Council opens new doors and new
opportunities says retiring chair Sara
Kircher.
She’s one of the council’s 12 members,
most of whom are wrapping up their
time as councillors before moving on to
tertiary study. She joined the council at
the end of year nine and said four years
later she’s leaving with a wealth of experience that will be of huge benefit in the
years ahead.
“I joined because I wanted to get involved in the community, to help organise things for youth and to get our voice
heard. The whole experience has been
great,” she said.
“If young people want to get their
voice heard and their peers’ voices heard
they have to stand up.”
The council provided many opportunities for its members to be involved in
their community but it also provided opportunities for involvement in national
youth events too, Miss Kircher said.
She said the opportunity to learn a
range of new skills and to take on a leadership role will be a huge benefit as she
moves into tertiary education.
Applications are now open for council
membership and with all but one of the
current crop of councillors leaving, Miss
Kircher said it was imperative new young
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Sick baby led to woman’s lucky escape
By Patrice Dougan
Taking a sick baby to hospital
led to a lucky escape for a young
woman after a car smashed into
her bedroom.
The Otara woman’s father
said she and her partner were
“lucky they weren’t at home”
after the car caused the master
bedroom of their south Auckland house to partly collapse.
The woman was at hospital
with her sick baby, while her
partner was working a night
shift when three teenagers
crashed into the Otara house in
a stolen Subaru about 4.20am.
The 16-year-old driver is believed to have died on impact,
while his two teen passengers
were taken to Middlemore Hospital in serious but stable condition.
The corner of the house, on
the corner of Franklyne Road
and Alexander Crescent, collapsed onto the car, trapping the
driver and one passenger inside.
Police said the car had been
stolen overnight, but officers
were not in pursuit at the time
of the crash. It is not yet known
whether alcohol was a factor.
Sano Tamasese, said his
daughter was “lucky” not to be
at home.
Everything in the bedroom
had been destroyed, and yester-

day morning he was waiting to
see whether he would be able
to salvage anything from elsewhere in the house, including
a new suite of furniture and a
flat screen television recently
bought.
Mr Tamasese said his daughter had complained about boy
racers in the area.
Fire crews removed tiles and
parts of the front walls of the
house in a bid to free the car,
which still contained the body
of the deceased teen.
Housing New Zealand said it
had provided accommodation
for both tenants of the house,
which was split into two units.
The family have accepted a
property in Mangere, a spokeswoman said.
A structural engineer was due
to assess the house to ascertain
whether it can be saved.
In the meantime a 2m fence
has been erected and 24 hour
security put in place to protect
the property.
The teen driver killed in the
crash is believed to have lived
only doors down from the scene.
A neighbour across the street
ran to the aid of the three teenagers, after being woken by the
sound of the vehicle, but was
unable to save the driver.
“I looked out the window and
saw the car hit into the house,”

A house collapsed onto a stolen car after the vehicle smashed into it in south Auckland yesterday morning, killing a 16-year-old and leaving two other people with serious injuries.
Photo new zealand herald

said 18-year-old Katai Liu.
His sister rang emergency
services while he ran to help the
car’s occupants.
“One of the passengers came
out screaming for help ... I managed to pull the other passenger, not right out of the car, but
to safety, so the ambulance people’s job would be easier.”

Mr Liu described the situation as “scary”.
He said the deceased boy had
been two years below him in
school, and described him as a
nice guy who was “easy to get
on with”.
“I just wish I could have done
more for [him],” Mr Liu said.
One woman, Eni Naniseni,

whose son went to school with
the boys in the crash, said it was
a “sad” day.
“It’s really sad. I knew all
those kids from when they
were young and they all went
to kindy with my son,” she said.
“And now his life has been taken under the age of 17, it’s not
good.”
- APNZ

McDonald’s, Massey partnership Housing crisis?

What housing crisis?

By Myles HuMe

Myles.h@theguardian.co.nz

Ashburton mother Belinda
Pearce admits she had no direction after leaving high school
in the late 1990s - and filling a
position at McDonald’s seemed
more like a job than a career.
Today, Ms Pearce is still
working at the Ashburton fastfood outlet, but holds a respectable position as office manager
for franchise owner Dave Whalley and is not ruling out opening her own branch in years to
come.
Turning that dream into a reality is a real possibility for Ms
Pearce, who is seriously considering taking on a newly announced partnership between
McDonald’s and Massey University which will allow her to
build on her diploma by working towards a business degree.
The unique agreement capitalises on McDonald’s in-house
education and allows staff to
cross credit their prior learning
towards an undergraduate qualification at Massey University.
“It’s something I’m still considering at the moment, but it’s
definitely an exciting option
to further my knowledge,” Ms
Pearce said.
It is a far cry from when she
left Ashburton College with
only a fifth form qualification
more than a decade ago, and fell

By MattHew tHeunissen

McDonald’s Ashburton owner Dave Whalley (left) with employee Belinda Pearce who is considering working towards a
business degree thanks to a new initiative between McDonald’s
and Massey University.
Photo SuPPlied

into “the wrong crowd”.
She worked her way through
the McDonald’s ranks, establishing herself as a restaurant
manager, before taking on a
general manager’s role and obtaining a diploma in hospitality
last year.
“They all paid pretty well, so I
can’t complain,” she said.
Ashburton McDonald’s owner Dave Whalley, who is about
to open his second store in
Rolleston, said he encouraged
his managers to obtain qualifications in hospitality, but the

Massey University opportunity
allowed them to go a step further.
“They could look to own their
own franchise, or even go into
the corporate world of McDonald’s, which can involve public
relations, marketing and many
other opportunities.
“Or they could start their own
business with the skills they
have.”
Mr Whalley said at least three
of his managers were considering the Massey University business degree opportunity.

Housing Minister Nick Smith
says there’s no housing crisis
in Auckland or Christchurch.
His comments come as a
new report indicates housing
affordability improved slightly
in the last quarter.
The Home Affordability Report by Massey University’s
real estate analysis unit found
housing affordability improved by 1.47 per cent during
the quarter to August.
Its calculations were based
on median house prices, average mortgage interest rates
and average wage rates.
It followed a $2000 reduction in the national median
house price, a 72 cent increase
in the average wage rate and a
reduction in the average mortgage interest rate from 5.57 to
5.52 per cent.
Regionally, Auckland, Wellington, Central Otago/Lakes,
Southland, and Canterbury/
Westland showed improved
affordability over the quarter,
while affordability declined
in Hawke’s Bay, Manawatu/
Wanganui, Otago, Taranaki
and Nelson/Marlborough.
However, when viewed annually Auckland’s housing affordability still deteriorated,

and the city is still the nation’s
least affordable region, it was
35 per cent less affordable
than the national average.
The report’s author, Professor Bob Hargreaves, did not
anticipate the downward trend
to continue. “If you take into
account the comments of the
Reserve Bank Governor about
interest rates increasing, you
could say there are some headwinds on the horizon,” he said.
“The outlook for affordability is a bit grim I’m afraid.”
Dr Smith said he didn’t put
too much weight on a single
quarterly measure of housing affordability, “although I
do note that it has improved
substantially since housing affordability reached its all time
low in 2008 under the previous Labour Government”.
He said the Government
was committed to addressing housing affordability,
particularly in Auckland and
Christchurch, but did not accept there was a crisis.
“I don’t accept that there is
a crisis and the duplicity of
parties like Labour is exposed
when the affordability index
was a whole lot worse in 2008
and they rejected any notion
of there being a crisis then,”
he said.
- APNZ

Braided Rivers Al Fresco Area
Opens FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER 2013

B

raided Rivers Restaurant & Bar opened back in October 2009. Now in our
fourth year, we’re celebrating our birthday with the opening of a new ‘Al
Fresco’ outside dining area. Capable of hosting 60 people, this new space boasts
outdoor heaters for those cool spring evenings, and oversize umbrellas for the
bright sunny Mid Canterbury afternoons.
Located in the heart of town on the corner of Cass and Burnett Streets, Braided
Rivers is ideally situated to take advantage of the afternoon sun for those after
work drinks, or perhaps a long lunch as we head toward the silly season?
We’ve partnered with Mumm champagne to create a VIP seating area outside.
Available exclusively to those indulging in this delicious drop of bubbles with
their meal - outdoor decadence at its finest.
If you need to stay in touch with emails, check in with the office, or simply update
your Facebook page then use our free WiFi service while you’re here.
For your convenience and safety a courtesy van is also available to give you a lift
home on a Friday or Saturday night.
Braided Rivers Restaurant & Bar is now taking bookings for Christmas groups –
and we’re feeling generous this week so we’ve decided that not only does each

guest get a Golden Ticket (everyone gets a prize) but we’ve also decided that
every person making a booking for over 10 people over the festive season gets a
$50 voucher as well! .
Braided Rivers also boasts an intimate courtyard area between the Bar and
Restaurant, with a retractable roof, large screen TV, big fireplace and comfy
sofas for smaller groups of up to 30 people. The courtyard is available for private
bookings.
The mezzanine area above Braided Rivers Bar is ideal for groups of up to 50 –
there is a minimum number of people required of 18. The mezzanine area has its
own large screen TV for watching sports, and has a separate bar – no need to go
downstairs for a top up of your Heineken or Gibbston Valley wine!
So whether it’s after work drinks, listening to some live music while you indulge
in your favourite tipple, a special occasion dinner or the work Christmas shout
Braided Rivers has a solution to suit your needs. Contact one of the team today
to make your booking for Braided Rivers Restaurant & Bar.
We look forward to seeing you at Braided Rivers Restaurant & Bar soon.

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Friday, October 11, 2013

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OUR VIEW

Our drinking
culture needs
to change
Coen Lammers
EDITOR

T

he Local Alcohol Policy
has created substantial
debate in the community,
but it remains to be seen how
much it will truly affect the
drinking habits in Mid Canterbury.
Canterbury Medical Officer
of Health Alistair Humphrey
yesterday reminded Mid Canterbury that this district is one
of the worst for alcohol-related
illnesses and injuries.
He points out that millions
of dollars are spend on hospital
admissions on those among us
who cannot control their liquor
consumption.
The discussion around closing
hours, just like the never-ending
debate around the drinking age,
is important but really just tinkering around the fringes.
You do not have to be an
expert to realise that late night
drunks staggering from bar to
bar are a recipe for disaster, so
the one-way system has merit.
The fact that council, bar
owners, police and health
authorities have agreed on the
current LAP proposal is encouraging.
Some off-licences will take a
hit because of their earlier closing, but it remains to be seen if
that will make any difference in
the levels of the dreaded preloading.
The argument to stay open
longer to serve shift workers
is not convincing because shift
workers finish at all hours and
they will have to learn to stock
up the fridge before they head
into work.
The 3am closing could become the main issue, especially
once a third late-night venue
opens in town, and intoxicated
patrons from three clubs will
pour into the street. The bars
will take care of any issues on
their doorstep but who will
monitor and deal with any trouble erupting around the corner?
Earlier closing times and a
one-way door system may curb
some of the access to alcohol
but does little to tackle our appalling binge-drinking culture
and it will have even less impact
on how we drink at home.
Until we, young and old, learn
that you can have a good night
without getting plastered, our
statistics will stay the same.
Once staggering home becomes
an embarrassment instead of a
badge of honour, we may make
some real progress.

Crime stats
I’m really struggling to see how
the crime stats are the lowest
they have been for years.
Here in Ashburton, youth
offending and burglaries are
the highest they have been for
many years, if not ever, and
what’s going on daily on the
streets that is being observed
frequently by members of the

public? Stand over tactics between youth demanding the
property of others, smashing
windows in parked cars etc.
The culture of entitlement
with marginalised young ones
in this town is alive and well.
Ashburton has a very active
criminal element and a simmering gang element.
The drop in crime is not reflected here.
Raylene
(text message)

Bad roads
If the corners on the top part
of Fords Road were sealed I
would say okay, but it doesn’t

seem to be.
There are worse parts down
at Flemington, and Grahams
Road is getting bad again and
many others – Tinwald Westerfield Road.
What’s going on council have
you got your eyes closed on
these other roads?
(text message)

Vote for experience
Why do we need change, when
the present councillors and
mayor have created a great
community with all the new facilities.
I say vote for experience.
(text message)

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Winning - it’s the real world

POLL RESULT
Yesterday’s result
Q: Who should be the next
Mayor of Ashburton? (Results when poll closed last
night)

29%

Jonathan Leask

37%

SPORTING TIMES

I

f I’m not mistaken professional sport is all about
winning which means Steve
Kearney made the right call.
The Sonny Bill Williams flipflop landed him in an awkward
position but he made the right
decision to include him in the
Kiwis’ World Cup squad.
It has been the major talking
point of the sporting landscape
for 48 hours, polarising opinion
across the country. The two
camps are divided on whether
SBW should have been included at the expense of Tohu Harris after stating he was unavailable just 24 hours earlier.
The question is whether it
was the right thing to do, but
a lot of people are coming at it
all wrong.
They haven’t worked out that
the right thing isn’t a reference
to an ethical right or wrong as
the underlining factor is, as it
should be in sport, winning.
The question should be
posed, is it the right decision
for winning the world cup?
Then the answer is yes.
SBW copped similar criticism
when he came to rugby, but the
money-bill detractors seemed
to diminish in number when
we won the Rugby World Cup
and then even further when he
helped the Chiefs to a Super 15
title.
The guy’s a proven winner,
even if he doesn’t go about
it the right way - which for
the record in this instance he
clearly didn’t.
Say what you like about
the man in the street but as
a player on the field, he is a
game-changer and a proven
winner.
If you saw his inspired
second half effort to spark the

Russell Ellis

32%

Angus McKay Don McLeod

Today’s online
poll question
Q: If you were the coach,
would you have included Sonny Bill Willams in the Kiwis?

Roosters’ comeback, you would
be crazy not to include him.
Harris is a promising young
player and up-and-coming talent and I feel for him, but put
yourself in Kearney’s shoes.
When the reason behind the
decision is defending the World
Cup, Kearney made the call
that had to be made.
Kearney’s job is to win the
World Cup against a starstudded Kangaroos side that
has had the edge on us since
that fateful world cup, win and
Williams could be the x-factor
to help achieve that.
Everyone won’t like it, but
he’s not in the job to make
friends, he’s there to win and
as a coach that’s how you make
friends, Kearney knows that
best of all from his brief tenure at Parramatta.

We hear all the time that
sport has become big business
and the inclusion of SBW is a
good business decision, but I
don’t think we really get that
yet. It may be naive to think
that the business aspect doesn’t
extend to the national team,
considering the Kiwis recent
run of Australian converts
pulling on the black jersey.
They have a recent history of
bringing in whoever gives them
the best chance of winning and
that is simply what has gone on
here. This time it’s a Kiwi that
changed his mind and at least
it wasn’t changing his mind to
don the green and gold such as
James Tamou and Josh Papali in the current Kangaroos
squad.
It may not have been the
ethical call, but welcome to

the big time of truly professional sport. He’s been labelled
a sporting mercenary- well so
too is any rugby player who
goes offshore for the big bucks
- SBW has just done it closer to
home and been better at it.
It is the modern reality, and
there is big money for the big
wins.
New Zealand may not be
ready for the modern era - we
did give the Supreme Halberg
award to a football team that
had three draws and recently
had a victory parade for a team
that lost after leading 8-1.
I still think it speaks volumes
about our country, and I for one
applauded the efforts of both
but whether we like it or not,
sporting modernity is upon us
and winning is the only currency that counts.

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■ LIBYA

In brief

Gunmen seize Libyan PM
By Imed LamLoum
Gunmen seized Prime Minister
Ali Zeidan from a Tripoli hotel early yesterday, in the latest
sign of the lawlessness sweeping Libya.
The pre-dawn abduction
comes five days after US commandos embarrassed and angered Libya’s government by
capturing senior Al-Qaeda suspect Abu Anas al-Libi off the
streets of Tripoli and whisking
him away to a warship.
“The head of the transitional
government, Ali Zeidan, was
taken to an unknown destination for unknown reasons by a
group” of men believed to be
former rebels, the government
said in a brief statement on its
website.
A source in the premier’s office said Zeidan had been taken
from Tripoli’s Corinthia Hotel,
where he resides.
“A large number of armed
men entered the place very early on Thursday. But we did not
know what was happening,” a
hotel employee told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
A group of former rebels,
which had roundly denounced
Libi’s abduction and blamed
Zeidan’s government for it, said
it had “arrested” Zeidan.
The Operations Cell of Libyan Revolutionaries, which in
principle reports to the defence
and interior ministries, said on
Facebook it had seized Zeidan
“on the prosecutor’s orders”.
The premier “was arrested
under the Libyan penal code...
on the instructions of the public prosecutor”, the group said.
It said he was detained for
“crimes and offences prejudicial
to the state” and its security.
The cabinet said on its Face-

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allegedly threatened a police
officer when he was arrested at
a Melbourne business, a court
has heard. Peter Hewat, 58, of
Mickleham, was denied bail in an
out-of-sessions court hearing after
police conducted searches of his
property and his towing business
in Craigieburn yesterday. Hewat
faces 13 charges after $47,000 of
cash was seized from his business
as well as weapons, a stolen car
and car parts, cannabis, steroids,
two flick knives and syringes.
Hewat described the charges as
“junk” when they were read to
him during the out-of-sessions
hearing.
- AAP

US issues warning
The United States warned its
citizens yesterday of a “series
of credible security threats” in
the restive southern region of
the Philippines, where a Muslim
insurgency has raged for decades.
The warning came on the eve of
a planned visit to Manila by US
Secretary of State John Kerry,
although embassy officials
declined to comment on whether
the warning would affect the trip.
Kerry is not scheduled to visit the
areas mentioned in the warning,
according to his official schedule
released by the Philippine foreign
department.
- AFP

Two executed

Libyan’s Prime Minister Ali Zidan speaking to the media during a press conference in Rabat,
Morocco. Zidan was snatched by gunmen before dawn yesterday.
ap photo

book page that ministers were
“unaware of immunity being
lifted or of any arrest warrant”
for the prime minister.
The Operations Cell of Libyan Revolutionaries had expressed outrage at the brazen
daylight raid by US commandos
to capture Libi.
It said on Tuesday it had told
its fighters to be prepared for
orders to “hunt down and expel
foreigners who are illegally in
the country”.
It added that it was on high

alert “in light of the deterioration in security and damage to
the country’s sovereignty by
foreign intelligence bodies”.
The cabinet and the General
National Congress, Libya’s top
political authority, were dealing
with the situation, the statement said, while calling on citizens to remain calm.
US State Department spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki, travelling with Secretary of State
John Kerry in Brunei, said
Washington was seeking more

information on the reported
kidnapping.
“We are looking into these reports and we are in close touch
with senior US and Libyan officials on the ground,” she told
reporters. “We are working to
determine more details. Our
embassy staff is safe. We have
no further details at this time.”
Zeidan, who was named
prime minister a year ago, had
condemned the US raid and insisted that all Libyans should be
tried on home soil.
- AFP

■ AMERICA

United States debt default looming
By martIn aBBugao

President Barack Obama

Hells Angel denied bail

The United States sought to
reassure Asian leaders gathered
for an annual summit yesterday
that Washington would resolve
its political stalemate, after China voiced concern over a possible US debt default.
The spectre of a calamitous
default has emerged as a major
issue at the Asian summit in
Brunei, held in the absence of
President Barack Obama after
he was forced to stay home due
to the US government shutdown.
With Asian countries like
China sitting atop a mountain
of Treasury bonds, Chinese

Premier Li Keqiang expressed
“Beijing’s concern about Washington’s debt-ceiling problem”.
Li conveyed that message
in talks with Obama’s standin, US Secretary of State John
Kerry in Brunei, China’s official
Xinhua news agency reported.
A US official travelling with
Kerry confirmed yesterday that
the debt ceiling was discussed,
but downplayed Beijing’s concerns, saying Li had vowed
continued investment in the
world’s largest economy.
“Secretary Kerry made it
very clear that this is a moment
in Washington politics and he
reaffirmed the president’s commitment to resolving the issue,”

the official told reporters.
“They also agreed that the
United States has one of the
strongest economies in the
world and that they have a
shared interest in continuing
the close economic working relationship.”
China held $US1.277 trillion
($A1.36 trillion) in US debt as
of July, according to Treasury
Department figures.
Kerry and Li joined 16 other
world leaders in Brunei yesterday for the East Asia Summit the climax of nearly a week of
top-level meetings which began
in Bali at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum’s annual gathering.
- AFP

Two men have been executed
in the US with a drug not yet
approved by federal authorities.
In Texas, which has put to death
more people than any other US
state, prison authorities said
Michael Yowell was pronounced
dead at 7.11pm yesterday. His
execution was delayed by an
hour pending his final appeal
to the Supreme Court, the
highest court in the land, said
Texas Department of Criminal
Justice spokesman Jason Clark.
In Arizona, 71-year-old Edward
Schad died at 10.12am, prisons
spokesman Doug Nick told AFP.
“Well, after 34 years, I’m free
to fly away home,” said Schad,
strapped to the execution table.
“Thank you warden. Those are
my last words.” Both Schad and
Yowell were executed using a
lethal injection of a barbiturate
customised by a compounding
pharmacy. The US Food and
Drug Administration has not yet
approved the drug.
- AFP

Rinehart rejected
Despite there being much talk of
bringing about family harmony,
the Rinehart children’s bitter feud
with their billionaire mother Gina
Rinehart continues to become
even more complicated. In the
latest development, Bianca
Rinehart’s nomination to become
trustee of a $5 billion family trust
was rejected in court yesterday.
On Wednesday, eldest sibling
John Hancock announced
through his lawyer that he would
withdraw as a nominee to be
trustee “for the sake of family
harmony” and instead offered his
sister Bianca as a candidate. But
another sister, Ginia Rinehart, who
has always sided with her mother,
fought the proposal, saying she
would prefer an independent
trustee.
- AAP

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■ MAINZEAL COLLAPSE

Receivers realise $22.5m from assets
BY PAUL MCBETH

$111.4 million in known assets
identified, the pair have recovered $9.4 million from contract
receivables, $4.6 million from

McCloy say it is “likely the receivers will be able to provide
the liquidators with a surplus
from net realisations.”
The liquidators represent unsecured creditors owed some
$106.3 million, whereas the receivers were appointed by BNZ
who was owed $11.3 million, the
bulk of which was over the Victoria St building. Preferential
creditors, including staff entitlements and outstanding tax,
are owed about $5.3 million.
The receivers are working
with liquidators Brian MayoSmith, Andrew Bethell and
Stephen Tubbs of BDO in
pursuing some $46.6 million

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■ MIGHTY RIVER

Compiled by

Last Hart farm goes up for sale
The last remnant of Graeme ity dairy unit conversions of
Hart’s rural empire - a cattle and what were once forestry plantapig farm at Maramarua - is up tions.
for sale.
Trinity Lands, a company of
Hart’s investment company, south Waikato farmers, has been
Rank Group, is selling a produc- a big buyer of the properties, as
tive 142.8 hectare block leased to has Southern Pastoral, which is
cattle grazing and pig breeding 99 per cent owned by a Swedish
operations through an auction state pension fund.
on October 24.
Bayleys senior rural salesman
The property is being market- Mike Fraser-Jones said the Mared through Bayleys Hamilton.
amarua property was Rank’s last
Rank, through its subsidiary rural livestock-based land holdCarter Holt Harvey, has sold ing. He said in a statement the
about 30 farms, worth more than most most likely buyer would be
$200 million over the last three a New Zealand-based farmer or
years.
someone looking for a revenueThe Rotorua and South Wai- generating primary producekato farms totalling about 8600 based investment.
hectares were mostlyAlso
highcaptionqual- fathers
Theday
property
has 132 hectares
–
Sunday 1st of September.

of grazing land and an enclosed
pig breeding plant.
Commercial pig breeding company PIC New Zealand leases
the 1.35 hectare buildings and
plant, as well as four three-bedroom houses on the farm.
PIC is New Zealand’s largest
pig breeding company, supplying breeding quality stock and
offspring to pork-production operations throughout the country.
The adjacent cattle grazing
land is leased to a separate entity - with dry stock run on the
property.
The farm includes with eight
hectares of pines planted in two
woodlands on steeper terrain.
- APNZ

lion ordinary shares could occur
from October 15 through October next year.
“The board’s view is that a
purchase of our shares, at this
time and at current market prices, provides a return above the
company’s cost of capital and
will be value-enhancing for our
shareholders,” Withers said in a
statement.
She said the board had taken
into account the company’s outperformance against the 2013
initial public offer forecast and
the $100m lower than forecast
capital expenditure.
- APNZ

NZX 50 constituents

27/9

Shares in Mighty River Power
gained 5c (2.3 per cent) to $2.25
yesterday after the company announced it would buy back up
to $50 million of its shares less
than six months after listing on
the NZX.
Shares in the state-controlled
power generator and retailer
have failed to fire, despite a
strong showing when they listed
on May 10.
The shares were issued at
$2.50 and shot as high as $2.73
on their first day. By August they

had sunk as as low as $2.17.
Analysts said the stock had
fallen prey to bad timing - listing around the same time as the
release of the Labour-Greens’
plan to take control of the electricity market. Doubts about the
future of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter also weighed on
the stock.
Mighty River chairwoman
Joan Withers said the board believed that the buyback, representing less than 2 per cent of
the company’s shares, was a prudent use of capital.
The purchase of up to 25 mil-

NEW ZEALAND SHARE MARKET

Source: NZX

20/9

Buy back sparks share rise
BY JAMIE GRAY

in related party debt, which
stemmed from two significant
restructures in the two years
leading to the group’s collapse.
In the liquidator’s latest update, Mayo-Smith, Bethell and
Tubbs said the quantum of any
distribution to unsecured creditors will depend on the pursuit
of the related party debts, and
if unsuccessful, any return “is
not likely to be substantial.”
Mainzeal Property and Construction and Mainzeal Living
were tipped into receivership
on February 6, the Waitangi
Day public holiday, and 200 Vic
joined them on February 13.
- APNZ

13/9

The receivers for failed construction firm Mainzeal Property and Construction have
raised some $22.5 million in
asset sales and recoveries from
outstanding contracts, and are
confident there will be some
money left over for the liquidator to mop up.
PwC’s David Bridgman and
Colin McCloy expect to have
surplus funds for the liquidators once they’ve finished managing the receivership of the
Mainzeal companies they are
overseeing, according to their
first six-monthly report. Of the

selling construction assets,
and $9.7 million from property
sales, as at August 5.
Between February 6 and August 5 the receivers made payments of $18.6 million, including a $4.9 million payment to
the secured creditor, $5.3 million in contract expenses to
complete work, $2.4 million for
staff and $2.4 million in receivers’ fees. That left net funds of
almost $3.9 million at the end
of the period.
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former headquarters owned by
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■ GENEALOGY

In brief

Access to your ancestors
Two of the world’s largest
family-history research organisations are joining forces in an
effort they say will bring a billion historical records online.
The Mormon churchoperated FamilySearch and
Utah-based Ancestry.com have
announced a deal in which they
will collaborate to bring online
the church’s vast worldwide
collections of family-history
records.
Ancestry.com chief executive
Tim Sullivan says while details
need to be worked out, his
company plans to pour more
than $US60 million ($72.6
million) into the effort over the
next five years.
“To have the two, I guess
one could say, largest and most
important organisations in the
family-history space working
together to bring over a billion
records online over the next
several years is just a fantastic
thing,” Sullivan says.
FamilySearch calls itself the
largest genealogy organisation
in the world.
It is an arm of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, better known as the
Mormons.
The beliefs of the Salt Lake
City-based church are centred
on extended families joined
together through ceremonies
in its temples.
Ancestry.com describes itself
as the “world’s largest online
family-history resource”.
About 2.7 million paying
subscribers have access to online records and connections to
other family researchers.
Don Anderson, FamilySearch senior vice-president
of patron and partner services,
says his organisation sees the
agreement as further expanding its historic mission of providing access to family-history
research material.

Dutch win Challenge
The car finished in the rain, with
the sun it runs on nowhere in sight,
but that didn’t matter to the Dutch
Nuon team as they triumphed in
the World Solar Challenge from
Darwin to Adelaide. The Nuna7
crossed the line on Thursday to
claim the title with an average
speed of more than 90.71km/h for
the 3000km journey. Bad weather
slowed its progress on the final day
but also caused problems for key
rival, Tokai University from Japan.
At one stage, organisers said, the
Japanese car ran out of power and
was forced to pull over just north of
Adelaide to recharge its batteries.
Solar Team Twente, also from the
Netherlands, headed to Adelaide in
third place.
- AAP

Warmth from warheads
Uranium fuel from 20,000
disarmed Russian warheads
is generating about half of US
nuclear power in a spinoff from a
landmark disarmament accord, a
top US official says. But the deal
under which 500 tonnes of Russian
weapons-grade uranium has been
used to light and heat US homes
will end next month because
Russia believes its former Cold
War rival has been getting energy
on the cheap. Rose Gottemoeller,
US under secretary of state for
arms control, told a UN committee
this week the 1993 accord was a
disarmament success. Arms control
experts call it the “megatonsto-megawatts” deal and hail
the accord as a little known but
important example of the United
States and Russia pressing
disarmament.
- AFP

“I think from a FamilySearch
perspective, what we’re trying
to do is work with a variety of
partners where we can make
the records the most accessible
to individuals to use them,” he
says. “This relationship with
Ancestry is really indicative of
work we’re trying to do across
the board.”
The effort of the two organisations will be directed at taking Mormon church-gathered
records from around the world,
now mostly in microfilm, and
converting them into digital
form that is searchable online.

For Ancestry.com, which
operates mostly in Englishspeaking countries as well as
Sweden, the deal will provide it
with records from many other
countries and enable it to expand its reach, says Sullivan.
We’re really excited about
the chance to potentially open
up new businesses in new
international markets, but as
important, give Americans
access to records from some
of the nations of their homelands,” he says.
The effort joins the nonprofit FamilySearch, which

provides free access, and the
for-profit Ancestry.com, which
charges monthly fees for access
to its databases and services.
The two organisations have
collaborated on projects for
several years and Sullivan says
Ancestry.com does not view
FamilySearch’s free content as
a drain on its revenues.
“If anything it’s a great way
to let people try out the category with a free site,” he says,
while Ancestry offers other
content as well as access to a
large online community and
special technology.
- AAP

Trustworthy?
Fewer than one in ten Australians
trust social media companies to
protect their personal information,
but industry giants such as Facebook and Twitter continue to flourish
regardless. According to new results
from the office of the Australian
Information Commissioner’s ongoing
study of attitudes to privacy,
Australians are less trusting of
social media companies than they
are of debt collectors and market
researchers. The study of 1000
people, released on Wednesday,
found nearly half thought social
media and other online services
pose the greatest privacy risk, ahead
of ID fraud and theft.
- AAP

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School will host students
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October?
a. Thailand
b. Japan
c. Singapore
2 – When did a rugby team
wearing the silver fern first
play in England?
a. 1888
b. 1895
c. 1905
3 – Scarlett Johansson is
well known as...?
a. A chef
b. A TV personality
c. An actor
4 – How old is Justin Beiber?
a. 17
b. 19
c. 21
5 – Which pope preceded
Francis?
a. John-Paul II
b. Paul II
c. Benedict
6 – Who wrote The
Chronicles of Narnia?
a. J. R. Tolkien
b. Lewis Carroll
c. C. S. Lewis
7 – Which grapes are not
used in the production of
champagne?
a. Pinot Gris
b. Pinot Noir
c. Chardonnay
8 – A recent survey by the
Ashburton Council showed
local people?
a. Would like more liberal
liquor laws
b. Supported the existing
opening hours
c. Were not concerned about
alcohol-related issues

1. Teacher to face tribunal
2. Ratepayers bail out Methven Heritage
3. Disease puts town ‘in a
serious situation’
4. Farmers in year from hell
5. The rise and rise of Ashburton house prices

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In brief
Eventing heats up
All eyes will be on the National
Equestrian Centre at McLeans
Island, near Christchurch, this
Sunday as the South Island’s
leading eventers go through their
final preparations for the National
One Day Eventing Championships
next month at ESNZ Eventing
Canterbury’s One Day Horse Trial.
A field of seven will contest the
CNC2* headed by Rangiora’s
Ellie Braddock and Miss Matilda.
Madison Crowe (Ashburton) on
Brogan will also be looking for
an improved performance, while
Larissa Srhoy (Loburn) on Smirnoff
are all stepping out for the first
time at this level.

Touch up and running
Methven’s once strong touch
competition was in danger of
being cancelled this week. The
Friday night competition once
easily filled four fields, but
struggled to get enough teams for
one round. Earlier this week the
committee had only received five
intermediate entries and a paltry
six senior teams to be faced with
a tough decision of cancelling
the competition. “We’ll have
enough now to run a competition,”
Methven touch president Rob
Markillie said. “It would have been
a shame to call it off because it’s
such a good competition and
everyone enjoys playing.” He said
entries close this weekend with the
competition to start next Friday.
The Collegiate touch competition
has moved to Friday nights
after declining numbers of their
Thursday competition last year
and a 12-team mixed competition
started last week with their second
round tonight.

Mexicans unhappy
Mexican club side Queretaro are
seeking a Fifa sanction against
New Zealand Football for pulling
out of a friendly with the All
Whites this weekend but NZF
aren’t expecting the world’s
governing body to take any action
against them. The All Whites and
Queretaro were originally due to
meet in a six-team tournament in
Los Angeles but that tournament
fell over when a team from El
Salvador couldn’t play because of
visa issues. Talks were then held
for New Zealand and Queretaro
to still play, either in LA or Mexico.
Queretaro felt they had an
agreement - tickets had gone on
sale - and feel aggrieved the match
won’t take place.
- APNZ

Smith staying put
Australian captain Cameron Smith
insists he will be a Melbourne
player next year but remains coy
on his longer term NRL future.
Smith has been linked with a move
to his hometown of Brisbane and
will become the most sought-after
player in the NRL next season
when his contract expires at the
end of 2014. Smith has three young
children and has stated in the past
the lure of a return to Brisbane
to be closer to his and his wife’s
family could determine his future
with the Storm - with whom he
debuted in 2002. However, the
30-year-old said his only focus
for the remainder of the year is
reclaiming the Rugby League
World Cup for Australia in the UK
and Ireland.
- AAP

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■ RUGBY

Crunch time for semi spots
BY JONATHAN LEASK

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Mid Canterbury battle Buller in
the final round of the Heartland
Rugby Championship in Westport tomorrow.
The equation is simple for the
Hammers, win and they get to
host a Meads Cup semi-final
next weekend.
Buller will be equally desperate to get the win, sitting three
points behind the fourth placed
West Coast, who travel to Cooks
Gardens to play Wanganui.
The Hammers are coming off
a convincing 44-11 win over
Thames Valley where they executed an expansive game-plan.
That may not be ideal in
tricky conditions that await
them in Westport, with some
typical West Coast rain forecast but Mid Canterbury coach
Glenn Moore was adamant they
would still give the ball some
width “when it’s on”.
“Last week there was a mix
and as well as going wide we
played Thames Valley through
the centre a bit,” Moore said.
“Buller have a similar defensive structure where they don’t
attack a lot of rucks so that they
have plenty of numbers in the
line.”
“Buller have the best defensive record in the competition
and the only ones equal to them
is us, but they haven’t scored a
lot of points.”
Mid Canterbury and Buller
have both conceded a total of
118 points but Mid Canterbury
are the only team to notch over
200 points, with Buller only
managing 135.
“They have a good side with
potential to score points. They
have a good backline with plenty of pace so we have to be cal-

culated in how we go about it.”
Moore has been able to name
the same starting XV as last
week, with only one change on
the bench with Logan Bonnington back on deck and Ashburton
College flanker Seta Koroitamana who impressed off the bench
on debut last week retaining his
spot.
“We have had a stable team
for the last few weeks but guys
who were in starting position
have been out injured and there
is that competition for spots
which keeps every hungry and
on their toes.”
Giving some of the players
an extra incentive to perform
ahead of the playoffs is the fact
that Mitch Sim, Andrew Fluker
and Jake Ashby are due to be
back from injury next week and
Esera Lauina didn’t travel because his wife is due to have a
baby.
The Hammers have won both
times they have met Buller in
Westport, picking up a 32-12
win in 2010 but their most recent run-in with Buller was a
narrow 30-27 win in Ashburton
in 2011, having yet to lose to
the blue-and-reds.
They will look to keep that
streak alive tomorrow and book
a home semi-final.

Mid Canterbury will have to be at their attacking best to crack
the Buller defensive line.
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PLAYOFF PERMUTATIONS
Mid Canterbury and Wairarapa
Bush are in the box seat to host
semi-finals in the Heartland
Rugby Championship but a loss
from either could have them
overtaken by North Otago.
Currently in third and three
points behind the leading pair,
North Otago face the secondto last Horowhenua in Oamaru
and are a high probability to get
a bonus point win to move to 30
points.
Wairarapa Bush (28 points)
are away to a Thames Valley side that was well-beaten
by Mid Canterbury last week
to suggest they will pick up at
least the four points, while Mid
Canterbury (28) have a tough
task of Buller (20) at home in
Westport.
Wanganui (19) can resurrect
their season if the get a win at

home over the West Coast (23),
which would leapfrog them up
over the Coast. However, they
also require a helping hand from
rivals Mid Canterbury to beat
Buller and allow Wanganui to
scrape into fourth place - keeping their streak of top four finishes intact for an eighth year.
South Canterbury (18) will
feature in the Lochore Cup, unable to finish higher than fifth
when they meet the defending
Meads Cup champions East
Coast in Ruatoria. East Coast
(10) needs the win and results
to go their way to sneak into the
Lochore Cup playoffs.
King Country (14) are the
vulnerable side, sitting eighth
with Thames Valley and East
Coast able to overtake them, but
have the luxury of hosting the
winless Poverty Bay.

Jackman back for World Cup defence
BY JONATHAN LEASK

JONATHAN.L@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

The New Zealand Sevens team
are looking for a fast start to
their Sevens World Series title
defence in the Gold Coast this
weekend.
Having won the World Cup
Sevens in Moscow shortly after
they won an 11th Sevens World
Series title, New Zealand head
into this weekend’s Gold Coast
Sevens at Skilled Park as the
team to beat.
Mark Jackman is returning to
the squad for the first round of
the Sevens World Series after a
long-term injury forced him to
watch his team’s successes from
the sidelines.
“I’m really excited to be back
in the team and can’t wait to play.

It’s been a frustrating 12 months
watching,” Jackman said.
Jackman initially dislocated
and broke his thumb against
the USA in the opening game
on the Gold Coast last year, and
New Zealand again run out to
open their campaign against the
USA but Jackman has no reservations about a repeat occurrence.
“None at all. I am feeling
confident, the way I broke my
thumb in the past came down to
poor technique, I have worked
hard to improve it over the past
few months.”
The Gold Coast Sevens is one
tournament that has eluded Sir
Gordon Tietjens, who has been
at the helm since the series began in 1999 and is chasing a

Mark Jackman: Frustrating year

12th World Series title.
New Zealand last won the
Australia Sevens when it was
in Adelaide in 2010, but have
lost in the final to Fiji in both
of the two finals at Skilled Park

and will no doubt want to assert their authority at the earliest possible opportunity this
weekend.
“We haven’t spoken at all
about past performances here,
we are just focused on this one.
“This is a completely different
team to last year.”
The only new face to the sevens scene is 21-year-old Wellington wing Ambrose Curtis,
while Joe Webber has earned
a recall after he played seven
tournaments back in 2011/12.
The rest of the squad are the
regulars in DJ Forbes, Tomasi
Cama, Tim Mikkelson and Lote
Raikabula.
As well as the USA, New Zealand faces Tonga and Kenya on
day one of the tournament.

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There has been a changing of
the guard in Mid Canterbury
Open A grade tennis.
The junior grade representatives have moved up to fill the
open grade ranks, with just a
few of the old guard left playing the Saturday afternoon interclub competition.
Open grade convenor Tony
Brosnahan said that with the
varying availability of a number of the senior players, who
had a range of “other commitments”, resulted in A grade losing one team from last year to
be down to a five team competition, but the positive was that
the younger players are stepping up.
“There are only a few of the
old guard left and the youngsters are moving through as
they should.”
Methven and Fairton aren’t
in the draw this year and have
been replaced by a youthful
Hinds team leading the rise of
youth players coming through.
Highly ranked Canterbury
12s representative James Watt
heads the Hinds team that includes Duncan Rollinson and
Hayden McNulty.
Hinds meet Hampstead who
also boast a youthful line-up
with Joseph Langley, Christal
Brosnahan, Connor Brosnahan
and Milly Young.
In the other match Allenton
take on Tinwald, leaving Dorie
to wait a week with a bye in the
opening round.
Allenton will be fronted by
experienced newcomer Neil
McCann playing with Poppy
Sparrow and Larissa Allan
while one of the old guard,
Don Lake, leads Tinwald.
Dorie have the services of
Rhys Cromie to play alongside
Luke Glendining, Mary-Anne
Thyne and James Wild.
Tony Brosnahan said that
Jayden Cromie, Peter Leonard
and Neil Fowler are a few of
the players that won’t be seen
on court at all this year, while
players such as Greg Feutz, Jason Feutz and Ben Wright fill

Collier Trophy
The Mid Canterbury Primary A girls
clinched their first win at the Collier
Trophy hockey tournament beating
Wairarapa 1-0 in their bottom
section quarter-final in Wellington
yesterday. Jaidyn Busch hit home
with what proved the match winner
for Mid Canterbury breaking a
run of five straight losses at the
national tournament. The girls had
gone through pool play without a
win playing Waikato (0-3), Eastern
Southland (1-3), Central Otago
(2-5), Tauranga (0-2) and finished
with a 0-2 loss to Hawkes Bay. Mid
Canterbury takes on Taranaki in
their semi-final today.

Mid Canterbury Primary A boys
recorded an emphatic 6-0 win over
Southland in their bottom section
quarter-final at the Hatch Cup
hockey tournament in Hamilton
yesterday. Harrison Davies scored
a hat-trick and Angus Haugh hit
home with two goals with Ryan
Bradley adding the sixth as Mid
Canterbury ensured they will
avoid the bottom four places.
Mid Canterbury had completed
pool play with a 1-all draw with
Wairarapa after a goal from Haugh,
but still finished bottom of pool
B after losses to North Harbour
(0-4), Otago (0-3), Manawatu (1-3)
and Counties Manukau (1-4). Mid
Canterbury meet Central Otago
today.

Festival of Hockey
The Mid Canterbury B girls
advanced to the top eight of the
Festival of Hockey South Island
primary tournament in Ashburton
yesterday. Mid Canterbury met
Canterbury Development in the
quarter-finals and lost 0-1. They
meet Nelson in the semi-finals
today for fifth to eighth before the
finals tomorrow.

Basketball

Christal Brosnahan is part of the young Hampstead team set to compete in the Mid Canterbury
Open A grade tennis competition this year.
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a long list of possible reserves.
Ashleigh Leonard and Stacey
Hopwood will also be absent for
a large part of the season after
being invited to play Premier

grade tennis in Christchurch
this season, blazing a trail for
the current youth uprising in
open grade.
A reserve has six teams of

good standard with players all
aligned with their local clubs
and a strong junior interclub
competition also starts tomorrow.

Lowndes hits top gear in opening practice
Practice makes perfect - or so
Craig Lowndes hopes.
The Holden veteran made an
impressive start to his quest for
a sixth Bathurst 1000 title by
topping the timesheets at yesterday’s opening practice.
He clocked two minutes,
10.56 seconds ahead of Ford
threat Mark Winterbottom

In brief

Hatch Cup

■ BATHURST

By Laine CLark

Ashburton Guardian 19

(2:10.28) and Andrew Jones’
Holden (2:10.36).
Lowndes is more than familiar with the Mount Panorama
circuit - this year marks his
20th Great Race.
Remarkably, Lowndes has
finished on the Bathurst podium eight times in the past 10
years including four wins.
He is second on the 2013
championship standings, just

96 points behind Holden teammate Jamie Whincup.
Three-time V8 champion
Lowndes has his best shot at
breaking a 14-year title drought
this year.
But Lowndes said winning
another Bathurst crown would
mean more.
“I have always said Bathurst
is it for me - there is no doubt
about that,” Lowndes told AAP.

“The championship is a huge
achievement because you have
got the whole year right and
that’s what it is all about.
“But Bathurst is singularly
the biggest race of the year.
For me, it is all about Bathurst.”
One more podium finish for
Lowndes will put him equal
with legends Peter Brock, Larry Perkins and Jim Richards for
the most at Bathurst.
- AAP

The Canterbury Country teams
both tasted victory on day two of
the under 13 national basketball
championships in Dunedin
yesterday. The Canterbury Country
boys crushed Porirua 117-16 and
then met Tauranga in the late
round to complete pool play.
After a 43-70 loss to Taranaki to
start with the boys bounced back
with a 64-62 win over Tasman on
day one. The Canterbury Country
Girls claimed a 69-25 win over
Gisborne then beat Tasman 48-43
to complete pool play. The girls,
featuring eight Mid Canterbury
girls, had opened with a 53-39
win over Auckland but couldn’t
match it with the other big city
side Counties-Manukau 36-65 on
day one.

Football
Selwyn settled for third at the
South Island under 17 girls’ football
tournament in Methven. Selwyn,
featuring three Mid Canterbury
players, advanced to the semifinals after a dramatic penalty
shootout win over Canterbury in
the quarterfinals on Wednesday
but were no match for eventual
winners Otago, going down 4-0.
They then met South Canterbury
and claimed a 2-0 win to finish
third while Otago beat Nelson
1-0 in the final. Jess Dray was
named the Selwyn MVP for the
tournament.

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Hot Spot axed
Controversial decision-review technology
Hot Spot has been dumped by the Nine Network for the second leg of the Ashes.
The Australian inventor of the technology,
Warren Brennan, confirmed to Fairfax that
the infrared camera, which uses heat readings to detect ball contact, will not be used
for the series in Australia, beginning in Brisbane on November 21.
Mr Brennan said the broadcaster had a new
deal with Cricket Australia, and the decision
to axe Hot Spot was final.
The cost of the technology, about $250,000
for the Test series, is reportedly behind the
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leg of the series in England were reportedly
also a consideration. The decision-review
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The ICC also announced that team’s referrals would be topped-up to two reviews after
80 overs of an innings.
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Birthday Greetings

Ko turning pro?
Kiwi golfer Lydia Ko could turn
professional as early as next
month, according to the teenager’s mother.
After forging one of the most
successful amateur careers in
the history of the game, Ko
has long dealt with speculation
about when she will assume professional status.
And the 16-year-old’s mother,
Tina Hyon, revealed that will
come sooner rather than later,
with Ko set to play as a professional at the LPGA Tour’s season-ending event in Florida.
“If she plays any pro events
now, she will play as a pro,” Hyson told the Golf Channel.
Ko has already foregone winnings of more than $1 million
in her amateur career. - APNZ

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Vitali first,
daylight second
Five horses lined up for the standing
start in a qualifying pace at yesterday’s
Chertsey Trotting Club trials, but
only one managed to turn on a faultless performance for the entire 2400
metres.
Three-year old Tyronne’s Aphrodite looked to be in control from the
start, stepping out smartly and then

taking the lead, followed by Vitali.
Trouble I Am and Star Filly both
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and running wide.
First time round it was still a fourhorse race with Vitali in the lead, but
at the 1100 metre mark Tyronne Aphrodite and then Trouble I Am broke

and lost ground. With just two left in
contention, Vitali and Star Filly continued at a tidy pace and by the 800
metre mark had opened up a big gap
on the trailing pair.
As they turned for home, Versteeg
had Vitali at full stretch, pushing on
to win by 17 lengths in a smart time
of 3.12.8.

Star Filly came home in 3.15.2. The
pair ran the final 800m in 60.8, 400m,
30.6.
Tyrone’s Aphrodite came home
third 18 1/2 length in arrears with
Trouble I Am trailing by 44 lengths.
Vitali is a four year old MonarchySun City gelding, trained by John Versteeg at Irwell.

Leaving his competitors eating dust, four year old Vitali with John Versteeg in the sulky, made the qualifying pace at yesterday’s Chertsey Trotting Club trials into
a one horse race.
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■ RUGBY

Hawke’s Bay provides huge upset
BY CHRIS RATTUE
A brilliant Ihaia West solo try
completed a shock Hawkes
Bay victory over Wellington in
Napier last night.
Previously unbeaten Wellington had already nailed top spot
in the ITM Cup premiership going into their final match.
But heavy underdogs Hawkes
Bay needed a win to push for a
home semi-final in the championship division, and their 35 24 victory has left them hoping

that Auckland will beat Otago
in their final encounter in Dunedin.
Hawkes Bay threw the early
grenades, hung on with courageous defence in the tough
times, and finally won the war
in a stirring match of individual
brilliance and crunching confrontations.
West was already one of the
stars before his long range try,
with clever running and excellent goalkicking.
Prop Jeffery Toomaga-Allen

put in a rampaging display in a
Wellington side which held an
advantage in the tight battles.
But the Hawkes Bay loose forwards threw themselves into defence to compensate as the game
turned into one of the best of
the ITM Cup season.
Hawkes Bay shocked Wellington in the opening stanza,
flooding through their defence,
riding some luck and hitting a
17 - 0 lead by the 18th minute.
Both of their tries in this period had major question marks

over them. Zac Guildford scored
the first, powering through the
tackle of lock Kaipati Gaualofa,
but the chance was set up by
an awful touch judge decision
against Wellington. The second
try, finished by Telusa Veainu,
involved a short but clear forward pass which the video referee overlooked.
That aside, Hawkes Bay were
worth their lead via a physical
approach that rocked the runaway leaders of the premiership.
The inter-house Hurricanes

battle perhaps helped in firing
the Magpies up.
Wellington’s scoring chances
were rare, but they took them.
Scrum power set up the first
try and their forwards rumbled
through Hawkes Bay for the second, finished by lock Mark Reddish.